LETTER- Checkpoints work regardless of arrests

I consider the Hook to be the best weekly in Charlottesville. I like your thoughtful and forward-looking reporting and editorial policy (not to mention your excellent movie reviews). Therefore I was surprised and disappointed to read in "4Better or Worse" in the January 8 issue:

The chief function of DUI checkpoints is not to catch drunk drivers but to discourage other drivers from driving under the influence. There is considerable evidence that DUI checkpoints serve this function.

You should have commended the Albemarle County Police for making the roads safer for us all.

Mark H. MullinAlbemarle

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1 comment

dan1101 March 6th, 2009 | 12:50pm

Arbitrarily stopping everyone and treating them as guilty until proven innocent is not what America is about.